Kaneta Kimotsuki

• Name — Kaneta Kimotsuki • Native Name — 肝付 兼太 • Birth Name — Kanemasa Kimotsuki (肝付 兼正) • Born — 15 November 1935 • Birthplace — Kiire, Kagoshima Prefecture, Empire of Japan • Died — 20 October 2016 • Place of death — Japan • Other Names — Liver-chan (肝ちゃん) • Occupation — * Actor • voice actor • theater director • Years Active — 1954–2016 • Agent — * 21st Century FOX Theatre Company (founder and director) • 81 Produce (last affiliation) • Credits — Doraemon as Suneo Honekawa Galaxy Express 999 as Conductor Osomatsu-kun as Iyami Galaxy Express 999 as Conductor Let's Go! Anpanman as Horrorman Cyborg 009 as Sir Great Britain • Website — 81 Produce Profile born Kanemasa Kimotsuki; November 15, 1935 – October 20, 2016 was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and theater director. He was also the founder of theater troupe 21st Century FOX and was affiliated with 81 Produce. He was best known for the roles of Suneo Honekawa in Doraemon, Iyami in Osomatsu-kun, the Conductor in Galaxy Express 999, Horrorman in Let's Go! Anpanman, Takeshi "Gian" Gōda in Doraemon, Perman #4 (Hōzen Ōyama) in Perman, Kemuzō Kemumaki in Ninja Hattori-kun, Sir Great Britain in Cyborg 009, Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio, Benzou Karino in Kiteretsu Encyclopedia, Quackerjack in Darkwing Duck, and Tom in Tom and Jerry.

Kimotsuki was born on November 15, 1935, as a descendant of the Kimotsuki clan in Kiire, Kagoshima Prefecture, Empire of Japan (which later became Kiire Town, and is now Kiire Town, Kagoshima City). He left Kagoshima at age three and lived in Nakano, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture until he was four years old. He then grew up in Itabashi, Tokyo. While he attended Itabashi Municipal Itabashi Fourth Elementary School, he and the other schoolchildren were evacuated to Yuhiso in Minakami Village, Tone District, Gunma Prefecture (later and now Minakami Town) due to war. He was evacuated again to Ryūō Town in Ryūō Village, Nakakoma District, Yamanashi Prefecture (later Ryūō Town, now Kai City). At the time, he was a quiet, timid child, so the scene of being tearfully separated from his parents while being put on a train was etched to his mind forever. From the first night he arrived, he cried for his parents, who were back in Tokyo. Unable to cope with his constant crying, his teacher sent him back to his parents. Evacuees were viewed with hostility at the time, and even in Ryūō, the village children teased him mercilessly, calling him a "spoiled city kid" and a "crybaby." His days became a cycle of crying, yet he stayed there for about a year and a half. After the war finally ended, he returned cheerful and talkative, as he would run through the streets to gather up playmates and entertain by imitating the rakugo stories he heard from the radio at the evacuation site he stayed in and the G.I.s he saw in town. On his change in personality, Kimotsuki reflected years later as an adult, "I guess I was a city boy after all." He felt really happy to be back in Tokyo, and his old playmates felt like kindred spirits to him. He re-analyzed that moment in his lifetime, saying, "I was so moved I wanted to hug them," and "I was incredibly happy."

When he advanced to junior high school, Kimotsuki took a required entrance exam for a private school but failed. At that time, he dreamed of becoming a movie actor and auditioned twice. In his second year of junior high, he went to audition for director Keisuke Kinoshita's film Boyhood and was able to clear the second round. With a massive boost in confidence, Kimotsuki traveled to Ōfuna for a camera test in the snow, but he was unsuccessful. The child actor who was ultimately chosen went on to become an actor. Kimotsuki said in a 1999 interview that sometime later he saw that same person on a variety show where they said they were burdened with many debts, to which seeing it made him realize how tough it was being a star and that he was ultimately glad he didn't win the part in the end. To take his mind off things, Kimotsuki often listened to radio dramas. One day, when he went to watch a public recording of The Fountain of Stories on NHK, he thought he could work at the place it was performed, and that was the spark that made him aspire to become a film actor. His idol was actor Kenichi Enomoto. But his grandmother told him he didn't have the looks to become a film actor, which made him decide to instead aim to perform voice acting in radio dramas. He went to Teikyo Junior and Senior High School, where he founded a drama club. After performing Junji Kinoshita's play Twilight Crane, Kimotsuki decided to pursue an acting career.

After Kimotsuki completed high school, he gave up attending university due to the death of his father. He applied for the fourth class of Radio Tokyo (now TBS) Broadcasting Troupe but was unsuccessful, as instead he joined the Shichiyōkai Theater Company while working at Takashimaya. While working for Takashimaya, he joined theater troupe Shichiyōkai. At the time, Shichiyōkai worked with NHK, which caused Kimotsuki to start making appearances in NHK's radio dramas. To solidify his personal resolve to make a living as an actor, he decided to leave Takashimaya. However, even after he made his debut as a voice actor, he was short on money, so he gathered some friends and established his own travel agency. At the same time, he juggled several part-time jobs as a tour escort, banquet MC, shoe shiner, and dentist. After Shichiyōkai disbanded, he auditioned and was accepted as part of the opening performance at the Nissay Theatre alongside Takeshi Aono. Following a stint with the theater troupe Sakuhinza, which had split from the Shichiyōkai, Kimotsuki was invited to join a company that was established by Koichi Chiba, who was a former member of the TBS Broadcasting Theater Troupe and was recruiting actors. Kimotsuki's affiliated production companies throughout his career were Kiri no Kai, Sanko Office, Kawa no Kai, Ezaki Office, Actor Project, Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society, Mausu Promotion, Aoni Production, Production Baobab, and even his own company 21st Century FOX. As of February 2016, he was affiliated with 81 Produce. He had also been previously affiliated with Office Boro and Winner Entertainment. His feature film debut was in When the Kobushi Flowers Bloom. At the time, he was still a theater troupe trainee and was credited under his birth name, Kanemasa Kimotsuki, playing a young barber. Aside from this, he also was in the pornographic film Woman of Shame, but both movies are his only appearances as an actor in live-action feature films. His radio drama debut was in Women's Hour where he played an errand boy working for a dry cleaner. He had only two lines, but since everything was broadcast live back then, he remembered the tension performing his lines all the way until his death. His voice acting debut was as a member of a motorcycle gang in the drama District Attorney. When he first appeared in an anime, he had already done dubbing for children's dramas, so he found it easy to match with the dialogue. During a small theater boom in the 1980s, he encountered Sō Kitamura's Kotobuki Uta and was deeply touched by the play. Motivated by his strong desire to pursue theater work as an actor, Kimotsuki found the script for Kitamura's Eleven Boys at Kinokuniya and wanted to perform a play using it. He obtained permission to do so, gathered people from the training school where he was teaching, and in September 1983, left both Garakuta Kobo and Production Baobab in order to start his theatre company 21st Century FOX. The original members of 21st Century FOX included Takeru Miyashita, Matsuo Matsuo, Kei Hayami, and Kumiko Nishihara, with Kappei Yamaguchi joining shortly after. Within the troupe, Kimotsuki directed and structured productions, also serving as a mentor and would train younger actors. In 2008, the troupe celebrated its 25th anniversary by holding a commemorative performance in December that year that featured former members like Kentaro Ito. In 1985, from November to December, he was hospitalized for vocal cord throat surgery. His roles as Suneo Honekawa in Doraemon and Hakase in Obake no Q-Tarō were temporarily filled in by Naoki Tatsuta. Fearful of his voice becoming clean after the surgery, the laryngeal polyp was crushed using tweezers.

In 2010, Kimotsuki was diagnosed with lung cancer. Around May 2016, his physical health started to worsen, and he was diagnosed with pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo. He was hospitalized for tests several times and continued his voice acting career after being discharged, but his condition worsened even further by October that year.

Kimotsuki died from pneumonia on October 20, 2016, at the age of 80. His grave is currently located at Tsukiji Hongwanji Nishitama Cemetery in Akiruno, Tokyo.

Being the third son out of six children, Kimotsuki got married at the age of 24 and had a son and a daughter. His personal motto was "Respect Heaven and Love People."

His voice range was tenor. Kimotsuki's voice had been considered distinctive since childhood, but he himself only realized it was unique after he started voice acting. In high school, he played leading roles for the radio drama club and thought he had a good voice. After joining the Tokyo Broadcasting Theater Company, he thought he wanted to play leading roles in radio dramas, but decided not to do so. Kimotsuki's spoken dialects were Kagoshima and Kansai. As he had been active since the early days of Japanese animation, Kimotsuki's voice acting roles generally consisted of bully leaders, grandpas, and grandmas, none of them being good lookers, but supporting characters. After voicing Godzilla in the first television adaptation of Fujiko Fujio's Obake no Q-Tarō, he started taking on more slightly mischievous character roles. Regarding memorable works, Kimotsuki cited his first leading role as Kurobē in Jungle Kurobē and Barbapapa. Particularly in Barbapapa, he and Noriko Ohara voiced all of the series' characters themselves and they also performed the theme song for the three children, which was released on vinyl record format. He later remarked he was probably the first voice actor to ever become a "singing voice actor." Kimotsuki was asked to perform the theme song for Jungle Kurobē, but the song's tempo was too fast for him, so Kumiko Ōsugi performed instead. Later on down the line, when voicing Jajamaru in Niko Niko Pun, he normally sang about 2,000 songs, with a pace of three episodes a week. He recalled that while he was singing, he gradually learned the rhythm, but that the first two or three years doing so were very difficult. In The Monster Kid, the monster trio of Count Dracula, Wolfman, and Franken perform the song "We Are the Monster Trio". However, the voice actors of the characters, consisting of Kimotsuki, Takuzo Kamiyama, and Tarō Sagami respectively, were tone-deaf in singing, which composer Asei Kobayashi had an extremely difficult time working with. For foreign film dubbing, he provided the Japanese dub voice for Woody Allen and Jerry Lewis in several works. In Disney films, he voiced Donald Duck. Takuya Fujioka, the Japanese dubbing actor of Donald until he took over, became busy doing film and television dramas, so Kimotsuki took over as his official replacement. He also voiced Jiminy Cricket, Roquefort, and Scuttle in the Japanese dubbed versions of Disney films. He stepped down from the role of Suneo Honekawa in the Doraemon franchise on March 18, 2005, but continued to provide the character's voice in projects such as the narrator for Trivia no Izumi. He continued his career as a voice actor well into his later years, such as Horrorman in Let's Go! Anpanman and Tom in the Japanese dubbed versions of the Tom and Jerry cartoons. He also worked as a lecturer in the voice acting department at the Tokyo Animation College. In 2006, Kimotsuki formed the Paradise Troupe alongside Ichiro Inui, the president of the Bungakuza theater company, and director Masami Uryu.

He has appeared in almost all works based off the stories written by the Fujiko Fujio duo, with his first role in a Fujiko Fujio anime being the character Godzilla in the 1965 adaptation of Obake no Q-Tarō. At the time, child roles were almost exclusively done by female voice actors like Michie Kita and Masako Nozawa, and there were few characters with strong personalities. He was left unsure if he could actually pull off portraying a young character. He later stated that up until then, he felt like all that he did was done half-heartedly, he wasn't succeeding as an actor, and even when playing roles, he couldn't fully immerse himself and become the character. When he voiced Godzilla in Q-Tarō, his manager told him that while he was funny outside the studio, he was boring on the inside. During the recording session for the fourth episode, he decided to started improvising dialogue. Fujiko F. Fujio, who was observing the recording session, clapped his hands and loved it. it became the catalyst for him being specifically requested by the original author for roles. Even for projects where Kimotsuki hadn't been specifically requested, Fujiko would ask during production what he would do. Previously, improvisations weren't accepted, as he had been told to just stick to what was written in the scripts. After breaking through with Godzilla in Q-Tarō, he started getting more child character roles. Works by Fujiko he didn't appear in include Chimpui and Mojako. For Jungle Kurobē, he originally auditioned for the role of Kurobē's father. When he was informed the part had been settled on, he thought he got the role, but was instead cast as the main protagonist. Recording was hard and extremely grueling, as he had to raise his voice constantly, which exhausted him. For the television adaptation of Doraemon on TV Asahi, he voiced Suneo Honekawa from 1979 to 2005. Kimotsuki previously voiced Takeshi "Gian" Gōda in the first television adaptation of Doraemon on NNS. He admitted in his later years that he had very little memory voicing Gian and mistakenly believed it was a black-and-white anime. On March 15, 2008, he made a guest appearance alongside Doraemon co-star Nobuyo Ōyama on the Kansai Television program Nanbo DE Nanbo. They discussed personal memories recording episodes of Doraemon together and their feelings towards their roles over the years. Several ad-libs Kimotsuki made in the roles he portrayed became part of the character's established traits or a signature line of theirs, such as Tsutomu's dialect in Kiteretsu Daihyakka, Suneo's line "You're so cheeky for someone like Nobita!" in Doraemon, and the line "Ossu!! It's Jajamaru-san!" in Niko Niko Pun. The role that made Kimotsuki realize he was suited to manga was the aforementioned Donald Duck, for he didn't have many script lines and mainly improvised. He realized he was suited to the field of work when he performed at the original tempo without breaking the storyline. Later on, when he appeared in Let's Go Hector, he felt that "fast-paced roles like anime would be better", which gave him the confidence needed and led to him receiving more voice acting roles. When he voiced the Conductor in the television adaptation of Galaxy Express 999, he recalled it as the most challenging voice acting role he had ever done and the original author of the manga, Leiji Matsumoto, did not reveal the Conductor's true identity to Kimotsuki, who initially portrayed the character with a serious, conscientious image, but upon finding out the truth, he remarked, "If I had known from the beginning that he was a blank slate, I wouldn't have been able to play the role" before laughing. He often appeared as a voice actor in the numerous television adaptations of manga artist Fujio Akatsuka's works. Kimotsuki made a guest appearance in the Yūji's Honest Room segment for Onegai! Ranking, where he revealed that Akatsuka did not approve of him as Iyami's voice actor for the second Osomatsu-kun television adaptation. Kyōji Kobayashi, who voiced Iyami for the first television adaptation of Osomatsu-kun in 1966, portrayed the character relatively quickly with a gentlemanly tone, while Kimotsuki emphasized his sarcastic and cunning characteristics, making it a completely different take. Akatsuka had even made his discomfort open to those around him, expressing, "He's completely different from before." However, after Osomatsu-kun ended the following year, Akatsuka had grown to accept Kimotsuki's Iyami, saying, "Maybe it's okay to say that he's a different type of Iyami." Kimotsuki performed the role with such intensity that after he recorded his lines, he would often quip, "I broke seven capillaries today." In Dokaben, he voiced Tonma Hitori. Tonma's "zura" speech pattern is a Yamanashi dialect, so he incorporated his own personal experiences from when he was there into the role. Tonma joined the Orix Buffaloes as the 5th draft pick in Dokaben: Professional Baseball Edition, and his "pendulum swing batting style was even imitated by Ichiro", leading him to providing commentary in-character during professional baseball broadcasts. He even had his Twitter account go under "tonoma_zura_".

Kimotsuki had a close friendship with voice actor and manager Kazuya Tatekabe for over 50 years. In a 1982 interview with Kibitsu, he said that he and Tatekabe's voice were similar in tone. In 2004, when interviewed for the 25th anniversary of the Doraemon anime series, Kimotsuki stated, "In terms of personality, Mr. Tatekabe and I are completely different. We were both in the same theater troupe, and we had similar problems. There was a time when it was fashionable to have discussions about everything, and when I talked to Mr. Tatekabe during that time, I found his perspective very insightful. I thought, 'So that's another way of thinking about it. When Tatekabe passed away in 2015, Kimotsuki himself delivered the wake address and the funeral eulogy at his services, concluding both calling out to Gian in-character as Suneo doing his voice, a reference to their roles in the Doraemon series. Kimotsuki and Masako Nozawa often co-starred in animated productions such as Galaxy Express 999, The Monster Kid, Doraemon, Ultra B, Gutsy Frog, and Dororon Enma-kun, to which Nozawa herself once jokingly remarked, "We're closer than a married couple because we spend so much time together." Kimotsuki also worked with fellow theater troupe member Takeshi Aono as bartenders at a snack bar. They hit it off and constantly improvised, becoming known as the "Comedy Bartenders", with their witty bantering being a huge hit with customers. The "Kappei" in Kappei Yamaguchi's stage name originated from Kimotsuki, who was his mentor, referring to him as "Inakappei" because he still had a strong Fukuoka accent. Kimotsuki also named the acting unit "Sannin no Kai" (The Three-Person Group), consisting of Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Seki, and Wataru Takagi.

Kimotsuki's personal hobbies included sports (mainly golf) and creating model railroads. In junior high school, Kimotsuki had wanted to become a technician. He enjoyed working, and my parents would encourage him to pursue it. Whenever he was making models, Kimotsuki used to craft them from wood by himself. Next door to his house at the time lived a craftsman who created musical instruments, and Kimotsuki would watch from afar. That made him think, "Making instruments seems interesting too", so during his second junior high school year, he made a chair using a board from the household shrine altar, though his mother got very angry at him for doing so. During his theater troupe days, a play needed a cake prop, but a real cake would not work. So he got plaster from his part-time job and made one out of that. He also made a pistol, using only photos as reference, by joining pieces of Japanese oak. He made a 38 Smith & Wesson caliber revolver, so the cylinder part rotated. Afterwards, people kept asking him to build things, but he refrained because it was growing to interfere with his career as an actor. His wife would ask him to build shelves sometimes, but he did not like that kind of work, and his personal sense of pride would not let it happen. Kimotsuki's special skills were rakugo (comic storytelling) and nagauta (traditional ballad singing). He would perform rakugo at an elementary school appreciation event and aspired to be a rakugo artist during his student days. His high school senior was Kokinji Katsura, who would visit his sophomore year school and perform a rakugo piece. Kimotsuki would persistently beg to be taken in as an apprentice Kokinji's performances, but Kokinji was a Shochiku star, so told him that he was not a rakugo performer and did not take in apprentices. He also possessed a creative visionary side, as the "Voice Actor Festival" event held for young voice actors in the 1980s was an idea that he conceived. He was also skilled with machinery. When his company 21st Century FOX faced deficits, he personally edited and sold videos in order to cover for the losses. He held a standard driver's license. He loved movies, particularly being influenced by his grandparents who enjoyed Western films, with Chaplin's movies especially leaving a strong impression on him. At his fifth birthday celebration, he would insist on having his picture taken while holding a cane. He was a fast runner. At the age of 50, he appeared on TV Asahi's "Beat Takeshi's Sports Champion" and won the 100m dash (time: 11.2 seconds). He was so fast he beat Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in a race, though it was actually a 90m dash due to a handicap. Until around the age of 50, Kimotsuki could not drink alcohol at all. He and Seizō Katō, also a non-drinker, would often attend program wrap-up parties and drink only cola. In his later years, he was able to drink, albeit small amounts.

Following Kimotsuki's resignations from his advancing age and subsequent death, the following individuals listed below have taken over some of his established voice roles. • Successor — Character — Works — Debut • Tetsuo Gotō — Scuttle — The Little Mermaid — The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea • Kōji Ishii — Disney's House of Mouse • Naoki Tatsuta — Roquefort — The Aristocats — Additional dub recordings • Setsuji Satō — Tom — Tom and Jerry — The Tom and Jerry Show • Kazuki Yao — Horrorman — Let's Go! Anpanman — Let's Go! Anpanman: Bulbul's Big Treasure Hunt Adventure • Hirohiko Kakegawa — Chocolatepanman — TBA • Yōhei Tadano — Jiminy Cricket — Pinocchio — Kingdom Hearts III

List of voice performances in television animation • Year — Title — Role — Notes — Source • –1966 — Astro Boy — Roboid, Atom's father, Ham Egg — Substitute • –1964 — 8 Man — Additional voice • 0-sen Hayato — Additional voice • –1965 — Big X — Additional voice • –1967 — Q-Tarō the Ghost — Tsuyoshi "Godzilla" Saigō • Gokū no Daibōken — Villager A • –1968 — The Golden Bat — Additional voice • –1968 — Perman — Kabao • –1968 — Princess Knight — Additional voice • Detective Brat Pack — Subordinate B • –1971 — Star of the Giants — Additional voice • Fight Da!! Pyuta — Sayuri's father, Commander Domelia • –1969 — Kaibutsu-kun — Banno • –1969 — Sunset Banchō — Additional voice • –1970 — Undersea Boy Marine — Henchman • Umeboshi Denka — Additional voice • Judo Boy — Additional voice • Kamui — Seppa, Hayane • –1970 — Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishō — Masae Mito (The Old Lady of Mito) • –1970 — The Genie Family — Bus driver, Cow, Conductor, Horse owner, Butler • –1971 — Attack No. 1 — Ichinose's father • –1971 — Tomorrow's Joe — Skinny Pine, Inmate C • Bakuhatsu Gorō — Clear Water • –1971 — Akakichi no Eleven — Jiro Komano • –1971 — Granny Mischief — Noboru • –1971 — Norakuro — Humble • Andersen Monogatari — Japanese Beetle, Lion et al. • Golgo 13 — Additional voice • Animentary: Ketsudan — Additional voice • –1972 — New Q-Tarō the Ghost — Tsuyoshi "Godzilla" Saigō, Tanu Jiro • –1972 — Tensai Bakabon — Additional voice • –1972 — Marvelous Melmo — God C • –1972 — Kunimatsu-sama no Otōridai — Ino • Pinocchio: The Series — Cricket, Prison Guard, Fisherman, Minions, Sawshark, additional voice • Triton of the Sea — Cal • –1973 — Devilman — Additional voice • –1974 — Science Ninja Team Gatchaman — Butler • –1973 — Hazedon — Pooyan • –1974 — The Gutsy Frog — Street Vendor, Dad, Additional voice • Demetan Croaker, The Boy Frog — Elder Beard Man, Resident, Kun-san • Fables of the Green Forest — Harry of the Ten • Jungle Kurobē — Kurobē — Lead role • Doraemon — Takeshi "Gian" Gōda • Little Wansa — Gamble • –1974 — Kōya no Shōnen Isamu — Additional voice • Microid S — Kankuro • –1974 — Miracle Girl Limit-chan — Ryūta Ishibashi (Boss) • –1974 — Casshan — OOA No., Luger • –1974 — Karate Master — Additional voice • –1974 — Dororon Enma-kun — Kapaeru • –1974 — Samurai Giants — Additional voice • Heidi, Girl of the Alps — Sebastian • –1976 — Vicky the Viking — Additional voice • –1975 — Majokko Megu-chan — Additional voice • New Honeybee Hutch — Additional voice • –1975 — Great Mazinger — Reptilian General Draydou • –1976 — First Human Giatrus — Father • –1975 — Calimero — Peter • –1976 — The Adventures of Maya the Honey Bee — Termite • –1976 — Reideen the Brave — Berostan • Gamba no Bouken — Dolphin • Shogun in His Boyhood — Kinoshita Tōkichirō • –1976 — Time Bokan — Mondōru, Dr. Tomoda, Little Devil — Mondōru features in episode 9 • –1977 — Original Genius Bakabon — Officer, Additional voice • –1977 — Dino Mech Gaiking — Chin • Machine Hayabusa — Yoshihiko Yamato • Gowappa 5 Gōdam — Godaemon • –1977 — Adventures of Pinocchio — Rocco the Bird • –1977 — Blocker Gundan 4 Machine Blaster — Chibisuki • –1979 — Candy Candy — Alistair "Stear" Cornwell • –1977 — Paul's Miraculous Adventure — The Spirit of the Mayfly • –1977 — Manga Hana no Kakarichō — Additional voice • –1979 — Dokaben — Kazuto Tonoma • –1977 — Robokko Beeton — Oh Hender, Numassy-chan, Pickpocket, Gorilla, Doctor, Additional voice • –1979 — Yatterman — Yokubaba, Minicui, Grandpa, Elderly Person, Witch • Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac — Phaco • –1978 — Balatack — Dr. Gobra • –1978 — Ippatsu Kanta-kun — Yamada • –1978 — Balloon Girl Temple — Gappe • –1978 — Nobody's Boy: Remi — Additional voice • –1980 — New Lupin the Third — Additional voice • –1978 — Angie Girl — Benjamin, Khan, Fireworks Shop, Douglas • –1979 — Song of Baseball Enthusiasts — Jin-kusu • –1979 — Starzinger — Matsudo • –1979 — Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern — Imprint, Drunken Boy • One Million-Year Trip: Bandar Book — Dr. Sharaku • –1981 — Galaxy Express 999 — Conductor, Police • –1979 — Treasure Island — Ben Gunn • –1980 — Zenderman — Master Gikē, Old Man, Old Man with a Hump — Old Man in episode 15, Old Man with a Hump in episode 16 • Japan Fairytale Masterpiece Series: Heart of the Red Bird — Additional voice • –1980 — Cyborg 009 — 007 / Sir Great Britain • –2005 — Doraemon — Suneo Honekawa • Back to the Forest — Yakobus — Television film • Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Traveller Emeraldas — Conductor — Television special • Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel — Radoru • –1980 — The Adventures of Marco Polo — Omar • Undersea Super Train: Marine Express — Sharaku • –1980 — Misha the Bear Cub — Drago Tragon • Galaxy Express 999: Can You Live Like a Warrior!? — Conductor — Television special • Cheerful Dwarves of the Forest: Belfy & Lillibit — Docklin (aka "Dr. Snoozabit") • –1982 — The Monster Kid — Dracula • –1981 — Astro Boy — Drop-3, Dr. Mazeb — Drop-3 in episode 9, Dr. Mazeb in episode 44 • Galaxy Express 999: Can You Love Like a Mother!? — Conductor — Television special • –1981 — Hoero! Bun Bun — Ponta • –1982 — Belle and Sebastian — Lyon • –1987 — Ninja Hattori-kun — Kemuzou Kemumaki • –1983 — Chie the Brat — An Old Man Cat from The Tohoku Region • –1982 — Dash Kappei — Village Chief — episodes 12-13 • –1986 — Urusei Yatsura — Manchinro, The Devil, Count Dracula, The Old Master, Chief, Additional voice • Lucy of the Southern Rainbow — Dayton • –1983 — Go For It, Ippatsuman! — Kon Corudo, Trelawny, Soryasooda • –1983 — Magical Princess Minky Momo — Count • Game Center Arashi — Komanosuke • Don Dracula — Yasubei the Bat • –1983 — The Mysterious Cities of Gold — Pedro • Ninjaman Ippei — School Mask • –1983 — Tokimeki Tonight — Bulldog • Pro Golfer Saru — Narrator, Manager, Commentator, Elderly Man, Golfer A, Additional voice — Television special • –1984 — Miyuki — Ueda • –1985 — Perman — Perman #4 (Hōzen Ōyama) • Itadakiman — Director • –1984 — Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel — Negative • Chickun Takkun — Takkun Hat • –1987 — Q-Tarō the Ghost — Doctor • Robotan — Additional voice • Ultraman Kids Proverb Stories — Gattsun • –1987 — Anmitsu Hime — Guardian of the Bitter Taste • –1987 — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — Old Crow, Additional voice • –1989 — Ultra B — Papa • –1989 — Mami the Psychic — Suneo Honekawa, Fisherman • –1989 — Osomatsu-kun — Iyami • –1996 — Kiteretsu Large Encyclopedia — Clockwork Warrior, Kiteretsusai, Benzō Karino, Genta — First voice of Clockwork Warrior and Kiteretsusai • –1989 — Bigger and Better: Dommel & Ron — Ron • New Pro Golfer Saru — Manager • –1989 — Billiken — Additional voice • –present — Let's Go! Anpanman — Chocolatepanman, Horrorman — first voice • Billiken Nandemo Shōkai — Dr. Torino • –1991 — Parasol Henbē — Tonbee • –1990 — Dash! Yonkuro — Village Headman • –1992 — The Laughing Salesman — Kyoichi Shiratama — episode 52 • Fujiko F. Fujio Anime Special SF Adventure Time Patrol Bon — Setofuru — Television special • –1991 — Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko — Lionel Weber • –1991 — NG Knight Ramune & 40 — Arara Colyara Yokkora III • –1991 — Peesuke — Heisuke Hirano (Peesuke) • –1992 — Emergency Takeoff Saver Kids — Dr. Bug • City Hunter '91 — Robber — episode 7 • –1992 — 21 Emon — Sasayama Alien, Onabe, Captain, Detective A, Omiso — Sasayama Alien appears in episode 1, Captain appears in episode 4, Detective A appears in episode 13 • Bakabon: Three Thousand Miles in Search of Osomatsu's Curry — Iyami — Television special • –1992 — Flaming Rugby Boy: Dodge Danpei — Venerable Tōkyūji • –1992 — Ultraman Kids: 30 Million Light-Years in Search of Mother — Gattsun • –1993 — Oi! Ryoma — Kodai Kawada • –1993 — Free Kick Toward Tomorrow — Adolf Beckett • –1996 — Pokonyan! — Ippongi Mikinosuke • –1995 — Red Riding Hood Chacha — Tory, Grandpa Coppett • –1996 — The Brave of Gold Goldran — Don't-Waste Grandma • –1998 — Gegege no Kitarō — Pillow Turner • –present — Great Detective Conan — Konosuke Jii — first voice • –1998 — Rurōni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Roman Tan- — Tadashi Horinaka • –1997 — The Legend of Zorro — Indigenous Elder • –1997 — You're Under Arrest — Takaya Sugano — episode 19 • –2000 — The Kindaichi Case Files — Yūichirō Matoba — episodes 1-3 • –1999 — Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden — Dowasurebon • Trigun — Leonof the Puppetmaster • –1999 — The Secret of Akko-chan — Fuusuishi, Feng Shui Scammer • YAT Untroubled Space Tours — Geruto • –1999 — Totsugeki! Pappara-tai — Mizushima's father • –2001 — Gambler Densetsu Tetsuya — Nezu • Wild 7: Another — Hassan • –2006 — Golden Gash Bell!! — Grisa • Cinderella Boy — Dr. Grimm • –2011 — Sergeant Keroro — Ambassador from Planet Yakunin — episode 165 • Shura no Toki – Age of Chaos — Tomita Shigeyasu • Space Symphony Maetel: Galaxy Express 999 — Conductor • –2006 — Black Jack — Alexe Morozof (Karte 47) • Shampoo Ōji — King Soap • Student Council's Discretion — Train Conductor — episode 7 • Yuki Yuna Is a Hero — Maro/Yoshiteru — Maro appears in episode 3, Yoshiteru appears in episodes 5, 8, and 11

List of voice performances in theatrical animation • Year — Title — Role — Notes — Source • 1969 — Star of the Giants — Additional voice • Do It! Yasuji's Pornorama!! — Additional voice • Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid — Crab, Triton's Trumpet Snail • 1979 — Triton of the Sea — Karu • Adventures of the Polar Cubs — Liquor • Galaxy Express 999 — Conductor • Good Luck!! Tabuchi-kun!! — Owner Tsutsumi • 1980 — Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur — Suneo Honekawa • Galaxy Express 999: Claire of Glass — Conductor • Good Luck!! Tabuchi-kun!! 2nd Bullet: The Heat of the Pennant Race — Owner Tsutsumi • Makoto-chan — Makoto-Mushi • Good Luck!! Tabuchi-kun!! Hatsu Warai 3rd Bullet: Aa Tsuppari Jinsei — Owner Tsutsumi • Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Galaxy — 007 / Sir Great Britain • 1981 — Doraemon: The Record of Nobita, Spaceblazer — Suneo Honekawa • The Monster Kid: Invitation to Monster Land — Dracula • Tomorrow's Joe 2 — Additional voice • 21 Emon: Welcome to Space! — Gonsuke • Doraemon: What Am I for Momotaro? — Suneo Honekawa — Short film • Adieu Galaxy Express 999 -Andromeda Terminal Station- — Conductor • 1982 — Gauche the Cellist — Cuckoo • Doraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil — Suneo Honekawa • Ninja Hattori-kun: Abracadabra Magic Picture Diary — Kemuzō Kemumaki • The Monster Kid: The Demon Sword — Dracula • 1983 — Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil — Suneo Honekawa • Ninja Hattori-kun: Abracadabra Hometown Battle Diary — Kemuzō Kemumaki • 1984 — Sherlock Hound: Blue Ruby Chapter and Treasure at the Bottom of the Ocean Chapter — Todd • Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld — Suneo Honekawa • Ninja Hattori-kun + Perman: Psychic Wars — Kemuzō Kemumaki • 1985 — Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars — Suneo Honekawa • Ninja Hattori-kun + Perman: Ninja Beast Jippō vs. Miracle Egg — Kemuzō Kemumaki, Perman #4 (Hōzen Ōyama) • 1986 — Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops — Suneo Honekawa • Little Ghost Q-Tarō: Jump Out! The Great Bake-Bake Operation — Hakase • 1987 — Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs — Suneo Honekawa • Little Ghost Q-Tarō: Jump Out! Operation 1/100 — Hakase • 1988 — The Legend of the Forest: Part-1 — Coco Spider — Short film • Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West — Suneo Honekawa • Ultra B: The Dictator B.B. from the Black Hole!! — Papa • 1989 — Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan — Suneo Honekawa • Dorami-chan: Mini Dora SOS!!! — Suneki Honekawa, Future Suneo Honekawa — Short film • Osomatsu-kun: Hello from the Watermelon Star, Zansu! — Iyami — Short film • 1990 — It's the Ocean! It's Time to Sail! Niko Niko, Pun — Jajamaru • Maji! — Boss • Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet — Suneo Honekawa • 1991 — Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights — Suneo Honekawa • Dorami-chan: Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits! — Sunemaru — Short film • Let's Go! Anpanman: Fly! Fly! Chibigon — Horrorman • 1992 — Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds — Suneo Honekawa • 21 Emon: To Space! The Barefoot Princess — Onabe • 1993 — Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth — Suneo Honekawa • Sanpei the Kappa — Grim Reaper • Let's Go! Anpanman: Nosshi the Dinosaur's Big Adventure — Horrorman • 1994 — Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen — Suneo Honekawa • Let's Go! Anpanman: The Lyrical Magical Witch's School — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Everyone Gather Together! Anpanman World — Horrorman — Short film • 1995 — Doraemon: Nobita's Diary on the Creation of the World — Suneo Honekawa • 2112: The Birth of Doraemon — Sunerobo — Short film • Let's Go! Anpanman: Let's Defeat the Haunted Ship!! — Horrorman • 1996 — Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express — Suneo Honekawa • Let's Go! Anpanman: The Flying Picture Book and the Glass Shoes — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Baikinman and the 3-"Bai" Punch — Horrorman — Short film • 1997 — Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City — Suneo Honekawa • Let's Go! Anpanman: The Pyramid of the Rainbow — Horrorman • Jungle Emperor: The Movie — Coco • 1998 — Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas — Suneo Honekawa • Doraemon Comes Back — Suneo Honekawa — Short film • Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy — Conductor • Let's Go! Anpanman: The Palm of the Hand to the Sun — Horrorman • 1999 — Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe — Suneo Honekawa • Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding — Future Suneo Honekawa — Short film • Let's Go! Anpanman: When the Flower of Courage Opens — Horrorman • 2000 — Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King — Suneo Honekawa • A Grandmother's Recollections — Suneo Honekawa — Short film • Let's Go! Anpanman: The Tears of the Mermaid Princess — Horrorman • 2001 — Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves — Suneo Honekawa • Good Luck! Gian!! — Suneo Honekawa — Short film • Let's Go! Anpanman: Gomira's Star — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: The Amazing Naganegiman and Yakisobapanman — Horrorman — Short film • 2002 — Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon — Parasimon — Short film • Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom — Suneo Honekawa • The Day When I Was Born — Suneo Honekawa — Short film • Let's Go! Anpanman: The Secret of Roll and Laura's Floating Castle — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Tuna Maki-chan and Gold Kamameshidon — Horrorman — Short film • 2003 — Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters — Suneo Honekawa • Pa-Pa-Pa The Movie: Perman — Kemuzou Kemumaki, Perman #4 (Hōzen Ōyama) — Short film • Let's Go! Anpanman: Ruby's Wish — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: The Amazing Naganegiman and Princess Doremi — Horrorman — Short film • Inuyasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler — Saya • 2004 — Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey — Suneo Honekawa • Pa-Pa-Pa The Movie: Perman – Octopus with a Pop! Legs with a Pon! — Kemuzou Kemumaki, Perman #4 (Hōzen Ōyama) — Short film • Let's Go! Anpanman: Nyanii of the Country of Dream Cats — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Tsukiko and Shiratama ~Heart-racing Dancing~ — Horrorman — Short film • 2005 — Let's Go! Anpanman: Happy's Big Adventure — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Princess Snow-black and Popular Baikinman — Horrorman — Short film • 2006 — Let's Go! Anpanman: Dolly of the Star of Life — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Kokin-chan and the Blue Tears — Horrorman — Short film • 2007 — Let's Go! Anpanman: Purun of the Bubble Ball — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Horrorman and Hora-horako — Horrorman — Short film • 2008 — Let's Go! Anpanman: Rinrin the Fairy's Secret — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Hiyahiyahiyarico and Babu-Babu-Baikinman — Horrorman — Short film • 2009 — Let's Go! Anpanman: Dadandan and the Twin Stars — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Baikinman VS Baikinman!? — Horrorman — Short film • 2010 — Let's Go! Anpanman: Blacknose and the Magical Song — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Run! The Exciting Anpanman Grand Prix — Horrorman — Short film • 2011 — Let's Go! Anpanman: Rescue! Kokorin and the Star of Miracles — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Sing and Play! Anpanman and the Treasure in the Forest — Horrorman — Short film • 2012 — Let's Go! Anpanman: Revive Banana Island — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Rhythm and Play! Anpanman and the Strange Parasol — Horrorman — Short film • 2013 — Let's Go! Anpanman: Fly! The Handkerchief of Hope — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Fun for Everyone! Anpanman and the Mischievous Ghosts — Horrorman — Short film • Let's Go! Anpanman: Apple Boy and the Wishes For Everyone — Horrorman • 2015 — Let's Go! Anpanman: Mija and the Magic Lamp — Horrorman • Let's Go! Anpanman: Sing and Rhythm! Anpanman Summer Festival — Horrorman — Short film • Let's Go! Anpanman: Nanda and Runda of the Toy Star — Horrorman — Final film role

List of voice performances in original video animation • Year — Title — Role — Notes — Source • 1978 — Doraemon: The Fishing Pond in My Study Room — Suneo Honekawa • 1979 — Unico: Black Cloud, White Feathers — Mouse (Garappachi) • 1984 — Creamy Mami: Forever Once More — Nega • 1985 — Magical Angel Creamy Mami: Long Good-Bye — Nega • 1986 — Magical Angel Creamy Mami: Curtain Call — Nega • 1986 — Cosmos Pink Shock — Computer • 1988 — Urusei Yatsura: Nagisa's Fiancé — Nagisa's father • 1989 — Legend of the Galactic Heroes — Huang Louis • 1990 — Osomatsu-kun: Iyami Alone in the Wind — Iyami • 1990 — The Legend of the Dog Warriors: The Hakkenden — Narration • 1991 — NG Knight Lamune & 40 EX: The Panic Triangle – Love's Storm Operation — Arara Koryarya Yokkola III • 1991 — Madara — Hakutaku • 1993 — The Hakkenden — Narrator • 1993 — Heidi, Girl of the Alps: Alm Mountain Chapter — Sebastian • 1993 — Heidi, Girl of the Alps: Heidi and Clara Chapter — Sebastian • 1994 — Doraemon: Nobita and the Future Notes — Suneo Honekawa • 1994 — Key the Metal Idol — Maestro • 1997 — Let's Go to the Jungle! — A Ham • 2007 — The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet — Conductor

• Galaxy Express 999: An Energy Journey Beyond Time and Space (2010-2011): Conductor

• Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights (1992): Suneo Honekawa • Kingdom Hearts (2002): Jiminy Cricket

• Robot Detective (1973): Kowashiman (episodes 5-6), Karateman (episodes 19-20) • Ganbare!! Robocon (1974): Roboinu • Chouriki Sentai Ohranger (1995): Butler Acha (episodes 1-15, 17-20, 22-31, 33, 35-48) • Chouriki Sentai Ohranger Movie (1995): Butler Acha • Gekisou Sentai Carranger (1996): TT Terurin (ep. 24) • Moero!!! Robocon (1999): Robogeta

• The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Cal Alder (Jack McKenzie) • Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985): Willy (Tony Cox) • Shocker (1989): Sidney Cooper (Sam Scarber)

• The Aristocats (1970): Roquefort • Charlotte's Web (1973): Wilbur • Darkwing Duck (1991): Quackerjack • Josie and the Pussycats (1970): Sebastian the Cat • The Little Mermaid (1989): Scuttle • Pinocchio (1940): Jiminy Cricket • Police Academy: The Animated Series (1988): Additional voices • The Mouse and His Child (1977): Bluejay • Robin Hood (1973): Friar Tuck • Tom and Jerry (1940): Tom • The Tom and Jerry Show (2014): Tom

• Pinocchio's Daring Journey (1983): Jiminy Cricket • Star Tours (1987): F-24 • Sindbad's Storybook Voyage (2001): Announcer • E.T. Adventure (1990): Bigzom • The Amazing Adventure of Spider-Man the Ride (1999): Softman • Galaxy Express 999 for Planetarium (2002): Conductor

In 2005, Kimotsuki received the Rikiya Tayama Award at the 14th Japanese Movie Critics Awards alongside his Doraemon co-stars Nobuyo Ōyama, Noriko Ohara, Michiko Nomura, and Kazuya Tatekabe. The following year in November 2006, they received a Special Award at the 11th Animation Kobe. And in March 2007, they received the 3rd Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tokyo International Anime Fair. In 2012, Kimotsuki received the Merit Award at the 6th Seiyu Awards.

• Year — Award — Category — Result • 2005 — Japanese Movie Critics Awards — Rikiya Tayama Award • 2006 — 11th Animation Kobe — Special Award • 2007 — Tokyo Anime Award — Merit Award • 2012 — 6th Seiyu Awards — Achievement Award